Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blair Underwood is stepping into the literary world, teaming up with filmmaker and author Joe McClean to create a new novel that ...

BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) – Did you know the state line used to be the home of a bustling black business district? It was called Bristol’s “Black Bottom,” which is a term for the designation of a black ...

The Detroit neighborhood Black Bottom's physical contours were lost to so-called "urban renewal" and the construction of the Interstate 375 freeway spur into downtown, but an exhibit of oral histories ...

The MSU Museum released "Honor in Action: Celebrating the Community History of Detroit’s Black Bottom Neighborhood," a curriculum guide for teaching students about the historical significance and ...

LANSING, MI -- Walk through one of Detroit’s historic Black neighborhoods and get a glimpse of what like was like in 1950 at this new exhibit at the Michigan History Museum. The new contemporary ...

X’ydee Alexander, Evan Lewis Smith, Jeff Nahan, James Herriotte, Matt Hollerbach, Melanie Jones, Will Bryson, T. Pharoah Muhammad, and Antoine McKay in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Credit: Courtesy photo ...

COLUMBUS, GEORGIA — Ma Rainey lives again — and on the same stage where the legendary Mother of the Blues had her premiere. The Springer Opera House's production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom would be ...